Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars :
Of god(s), trees, kings, and scholars : Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola /
Of God, trees, kings, and scholars : Neo-Assyrian and related studies in honour of Simo Parpola.
edited by Mikko Luukko, Saana Svärd and Raija Mattila.
- Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 2009.
- xxiv, 503 p. : ill., col. port. ; 25 cm.
- Studia orientalia ; 106. .
- Studia Orientalia ; 106. .
"Bibliography of the publications of Simon Parpola": p. [xv]-xxiv.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-501)
Eunuchen als Thronprätendenten und Herrscher im alten Orient / Origins of the artistic interactions between the Assyrian Empire and North Syria revisited / Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian : rejecting some proposals / "To speak kindly to him/them" as item of Assyrian political discourse / Osservazioni sull'orticoltura di epoca neo-assira / Assurbanipal at Der / A "new" cylinder inscription of Sargon II of Assyria from Melid / "Wiping the pot clean" : on cooking pots and polishing operations in Neo-Assyrian sources / The camels of Tiglath-pileser III and the Arabic definite article / Informationen aus der assyriscchen Provinz Dūr-Šarrukku im nördlichen Babylonien / A Neo-Assyrian royal funerary text / A happy son of the king of Assyria : Warikas and the Çineköy bilingual (Cilicia) / Claus Ambos -- Sanna Aro -- Zack Cherry -- Frederick Mario Fales -- Sabrina Favaro -- Eckart Frahm -- Grant Frame -- Salvatore Gaspa -- Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila -- Karlheinz Kessler -- Theodore Kwasman -- Giovanni B. Lanfranchi. Maqlû III 1-30 : internal analysis and manuscript evidence for the revision of an incantation / Some otherworldly journeys in Mesopotamian, Jewish, Mandaean, and Yezidi traditions / The diverse enterprises of Šumu-ukin from Babylon / "Armer Mann von Nippur" : ein Werk der Krisenliteratur des 8. Jh. v. Chr. / Two Middle Assyrian contracts housed in Istanbul / Two bilingual incantation fragments / Wilhelm Lagus : a pioneer of cuneiform research in Finland / Wisdom as mediatrix in Sirach 24 : Ben Sira, love lyrics, and prophecy / A Mesopotamian omen in the cycle of Cyrus the Great / Some reflections on metaphor, ambiguity, and literary tradition / Reflections on the translatability of the notion of holiness / Altorientalisches im Buch Judith / Tzvi Abusch -- Amar Annus -- Muhammad Dandamayev -- Manfried Dietrich -- Veysel Donbaz -- Markham J. Geller -- Tapani Harviainen -- Martti Nissinen -- Antonio Panaino ; with an "appendix on cuneiform sources" by Gian Pietro Basello -- Simonetta Ponchia -- Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Robert Rollinger. Remembrance at Assur : the case of the dated Aramaic memorials / The chief singer and other late eponyms / Family ties : Assurbanipal's family revisited / Ašipâ again : a microhistory of an Assyrian provincial administrator / Neo-Assyrian texts from Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon : a preliminary report / Noseless in Nimrud : more figurative responses to Assyrian domination / Assyrian king and his scholars : the Syro-Anatolian and the Egyptian schools / Fez, diadem, turban, chaplet : power-dressing at the Assyrian court / Inschriften des Ninurta-bēlu-uṣur, Statthalters von Kār-Salmānu-ašarēd. Teil 1 / Who were the "ladies of the house" in the Assyrian Empire? / I feared the snow and turned back / Alasdair Livingstone -- Raija Mattila -- Jamie Novotny, Jennifer Singletary -- Bradley J. Parker -- Olof Pedersén -- Barbara Nevling Porter -- Karen Radner -- Julian Reade -- Wolfgang Röllig -- Saana Svärd, Mikko Luukko -- Greta Van Buylaere.
Articles in English, with five contributions in German and one in Italian; Includes abstracts in English.
9519380728 9789519380728
Akkadian language.
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
Assyria--Antiquities.
Assyria--History.
930
"Bibliography of the publications of Simon Parpola": p. [xv]-xxiv.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-501)
Eunuchen als Thronprätendenten und Herrscher im alten Orient / Origins of the artistic interactions between the Assyrian Empire and North Syria revisited / Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian : rejecting some proposals / "To speak kindly to him/them" as item of Assyrian political discourse / Osservazioni sull'orticoltura di epoca neo-assira / Assurbanipal at Der / A "new" cylinder inscription of Sargon II of Assyria from Melid / "Wiping the pot clean" : on cooking pots and polishing operations in Neo-Assyrian sources / The camels of Tiglath-pileser III and the Arabic definite article / Informationen aus der assyriscchen Provinz Dūr-Šarrukku im nördlichen Babylonien / A Neo-Assyrian royal funerary text / A happy son of the king of Assyria : Warikas and the Çineköy bilingual (Cilicia) / Claus Ambos -- Sanna Aro -- Zack Cherry -- Frederick Mario Fales -- Sabrina Favaro -- Eckart Frahm -- Grant Frame -- Salvatore Gaspa -- Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila -- Karlheinz Kessler -- Theodore Kwasman -- Giovanni B. Lanfranchi. Maqlû III 1-30 : internal analysis and manuscript evidence for the revision of an incantation / Some otherworldly journeys in Mesopotamian, Jewish, Mandaean, and Yezidi traditions / The diverse enterprises of Šumu-ukin from Babylon / "Armer Mann von Nippur" : ein Werk der Krisenliteratur des 8. Jh. v. Chr. / Two Middle Assyrian contracts housed in Istanbul / Two bilingual incantation fragments / Wilhelm Lagus : a pioneer of cuneiform research in Finland / Wisdom as mediatrix in Sirach 24 : Ben Sira, love lyrics, and prophecy / A Mesopotamian omen in the cycle of Cyrus the Great / Some reflections on metaphor, ambiguity, and literary tradition / Reflections on the translatability of the notion of holiness / Altorientalisches im Buch Judith / Tzvi Abusch -- Amar Annus -- Muhammad Dandamayev -- Manfried Dietrich -- Veysel Donbaz -- Markham J. Geller -- Tapani Harviainen -- Martti Nissinen -- Antonio Panaino ; with an "appendix on cuneiform sources" by Gian Pietro Basello -- Simonetta Ponchia -- Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Robert Rollinger. Remembrance at Assur : the case of the dated Aramaic memorials / The chief singer and other late eponyms / Family ties : Assurbanipal's family revisited / Ašipâ again : a microhistory of an Assyrian provincial administrator / Neo-Assyrian texts from Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon : a preliminary report / Noseless in Nimrud : more figurative responses to Assyrian domination / Assyrian king and his scholars : the Syro-Anatolian and the Egyptian schools / Fez, diadem, turban, chaplet : power-dressing at the Assyrian court / Inschriften des Ninurta-bēlu-uṣur, Statthalters von Kār-Salmānu-ašarēd. Teil 1 / Who were the "ladies of the house" in the Assyrian Empire? / I feared the snow and turned back / Alasdair Livingstone -- Raija Mattila -- Jamie Novotny, Jennifer Singletary -- Bradley J. Parker -- Olof Pedersén -- Barbara Nevling Porter -- Karen Radner -- Julian Reade -- Wolfgang Röllig -- Saana Svärd, Mikko Luukko -- Greta Van Buylaere.
Articles in English, with five contributions in German and one in Italian; Includes abstracts in English.
9519380728 9789519380728
Akkadian language.
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.
Assyria--Antiquities.
Assyria--History.
930
